Frenchman pretends he is English and makes his barber believe he doesn’t speak a word of French for years to avoid small talk: ‘He doesn’t speak a single word of english, the only few times we interacted I used google translate on my phone’ – FAIL Blog

When I was a teenager and didn’t want to answer my phone, I would always say the speaker was broken; it worked every time, and nobody got hurt, plus I avoided long audio messages, which for me is amazing. Paradoxically, the Frenchman had to do something way harder than speaking, which is outright performing. Maybe, for him, it’s easier to perform and to create a whole character than to speak or to be upfront about his desires, which is, in turn, peculiar.